Premier William Lai is commenting on the rumours of a cabinet shuffle.

Lai says the top priority for the Cabinet is implementation of governmentpolicies.

This will be the biggest Cabinet reshuffle of his term, and the premier sayshe expects the new team to provide better services for the people and pushfor higher efficiency.

Lai says during the first phase of the Tsai Administration, the focus was onchanges in law, special budget and development projects, and now they willconcentrate on carrying out those decisions.

He adds that the reason for a Cabinet reshuffle right now is because severalministers, including Interior Minister Ye Jun-rong, told him that they hadachieved what they set out to do and would like to leave.

Even so, Ye will stay in the Cabinet to take over the office of EducationMinister, which has been vacant for one and a half months.

In response, National Taiwan University is urging the new Education Ministerto respect college autonomy and the university's choice of Guan Zhong-min asits President based on the College Act.